Dean's Recent Reviews
Adventureland
R
Director Greg Mottola's softly spoken, semi-autobiographical teen romance is a charming '80s tale of first love and first paycheques.
Jesse Eisenberg is a perfect fit. Kristen Stewart shows a gift for the genuine in a pretty girl growing up off-balance: she's flinty and fragile, utterly baffling to the uninitiated and entirely real.
Their film is conditioned to downplay - there are next-to-no dick jokes, nor a display-case of '80s trinkets to give credo to its time zone, but swathes of balmy warmth like a summer evening. The laughs are sweetly mocking.
The Open Road
PG-13
The film is ultimately a road trip movie - father and son hit the road, where many secrets and feelings come to surface - in the tradition of 2009's Aussie, Charlie & Boots, with a red hot cast including Jeff Bridges, Justin Timberlake, Mary Steenburgen, Harry Dean Stanton and Ted Danson.
Dean's Favorite Movies
The Fugitive
PG-13
I love that movie as Harrison Ford is fantastic as his character on the run. I watched that movie more than 50 times.
Spider-Man
PG-13
I am a very fan of Marvel's superhero and loved that movie better than late 1970's TV series.
